Harold Hongju Koh
Sterling Professor of International Law
Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School. Professor Koh is one of the country’s leading experts in public and private international law, national security law, and human rights.
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Contact Information
- 203-432-4932
- harold.koh@yale.edu
Faculty Assistant
Kris Krause
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- 203-432-6586
- kris.krause@yale.edu
Education & Curriculum Vitae
M.A., University of Oxford, 1996
J.D., Harvard Law School, 1980
B.A., University of Oxford, 1977 (Marshall Scholar)
A.B., Harvard University, 1975
Courses Taught
- Procedure
- Foreign Relations and National Security Law
- International Human Rights Law and Policy
- Introduction to International and Transnational Law
- The Past, Present, and Future of Global Climate Change: Law and Policy
Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School. He returned to Yale Law School in January 2013 after serving for nearly four years as the 22nd Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State.
Professor Koh is one of the country’s leading experts in public and private international law, national security law, and human rights. He first began teaching at Yale Law School in 1985 and served as its fifteenth Dean from 2004 until 2009. From 2009 to 2013, he took leave as the Martin R. Flug ’55 Professor of International Law to join the State Department as Legal Adviser, service for which he received the Secretary of State's Distinguished Service Award. From 1993 to 2009, he was the Gerard C. & Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, and from 1998 to 2001, he served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor.
Professor Koh has received seventeen honorary degrees and more than thirty awards for his human rights work, including awards from Columbia Law School and the American Bar Association for his lifetime achievements in international law. He has authored or co-authored eight books, published more than 200 articles, testified regularly before Congress, and litigated numerous cases involving international law issues in both U.S. and international tribunals. He is a Fellow of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an Honorary Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and a member of the Council of the American Law Institute.
He holds a B.A. degree from Harvard College and B.A. and M.A. degrees from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was Developments Editor of the Harvard Law Review. Before coming to Yale, he served as a law clerk for Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the United States Supreme Court and Judge Malcolm Richard Wilkey of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, worked as an attorney in private practice in Washington, and served as an Attorney-Adviser for the Office of Legal Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice.
Watch and read an interview with Harold Hongju Koh about his life and career from the Squire Law Library, University of Cambridge.
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Professor Koh Asks International Court of Justice to Decide Ukraine’s Suit Against Russia
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh, for the third time in the last two years, returned to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague in September to argue on behalf of Ukraine against Russia.
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
Professor Koh Named 2023 Lemkin Rule of Law Guardian by Duke Law School
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh will be awarded the Raphael Lemkin Rule of Law Guardian Medal.
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
Finally Ending America’s Forever War, Part II: Prescription — A Commentary by Harold Hongju Koh
Just Security
Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School.
Monday, September 11, 2023
Finally Ending America’s Forever War, Part I: Diagnosis — A Commentary by Harold Hongju Koh
Just Security
Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School.
Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Professor Koh Argues at the International Court of Justice on Behalf of Ukraine
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh was among the lawyers representing Ukraine at the International Court of Justice asking the court to declare Russia in violation of two international treaties.
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
Ukraine Denounces Russia as ‘Terrorist State’ at World Court Hearing
Reuters
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh made opening arguments in Ukraine’s new case against Russia before the International Court of Justice.
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
Ukraine Brands Russia ‘Terrorist State’ in Opening Statement at International Court
The Associated Press
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh represents Ukraine in its new case against Russia before the International Court of Justice.
Tuesday, April 25, 2023
The Judge Who Sentenced the Rosenbergs
Washington Monthly
Work by Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh is mentioned in a recent book review.
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
State Dept. Proposes Joint Tribunal to Try Russian Leaders
The New York Times
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh comments on a proposal for the creation of a joint tribunal in which Ukraine and international allies would try Russian leaders for crimes of aggression.
Friday, January 20, 2023
Professors Koh and Hathaway Selected for Foreign Relations Law Restatement Project
Sterling Professor of Law Harold Hongju Koh and Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law Oona A. Hathaway ’97 will work on the American Law Institute’s project to clarify the U.S. foreign relations law.
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
Professor Koh Receives Sohn Human Rights Award
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh received the Louis B. Sohn Human Rights Award from the U.N. Association of the National Capital Area at its 2022 Human Rights Awards ceremony on Dec. 9.
Thursday, April 21, 2022
Justice for Ukraine: Harold Koh on International Law
The Octavian Report
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh discusses in a Q&A how international law can help address the crisis in Ukraine.
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
The Legacy of Title 42
On Point
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh discusses the immigration policy known as Title 42, which stopped asylum seekers from entering the U.S. during the pandemic and is set to end next month.
Thursday, April 14, 2022
Biden Calls Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine a ‘Genocide.’ Is It a War Crime?
USA Today
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh comments on whether genocide can be considered a war crime.
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Yale Professor Who Represented Ukraine in International Court Awaits Ruling
Connecticut Public Radio
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh is interviewed about the forthcoming ruling from the International Court of Justice, before which he represented Ukraine in its lawsuit against Russia.
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
U.N. To Rule on Allegations of Genocide in Ukraine
ABC News
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh, who represented Ukraine before the International Court of Justice, discusses what will happen if the court rules that Russia has committed genocide.
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Professor Koh Helps Win World Court Ruling Ordering Russia to Halt Ukraine Invasion
On March 16, the International Court of Justice in the Hague issued a landmark ruling ordering the Russian Federation to immediately suspend its military operations in the territory of Ukraine. Professor Harold Hongju Koh argued on behalf of Ukraine.
Sunday, March 13, 2022
Yale Law Professor Represents Ukraine at World Court
Yale Daily News
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh was interviewed about his work representing Ukraine at the International Court of Justice, and Howard M. Holtzmann Professor Emeritus of Law Lea Brilmayer is also quoted.
Monday, March 7, 2022
Ukraine Takes Russia to Court, But Moscow’s Representatives Are a No-Show
The Washington Post
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh is quoted about a hearing before the International Court of Justice regarding Ukraine’s efforts to seek an end to the Russian invasion.
Monday, March 7, 2022
Ukraine Takes its Case Against Russia to the U.N.’s Highest Court
The New York Times
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh is quoted about a hearing before the International Court of Justice regarding Ukraine’s efforts to seek an end to the Russian invasion.
Monday, March 7, 2022
Professor Koh Argues on Behalf of Ukraine at World Court
Professor Harold Hongju Koh argued on behalf of Ukraine at the International Court of Justice in a suit filed against Russia regarding its invasion of the country.
Monday, February 28, 2022
Ukraine Asks World Court To Intervene In Russia Conflict
Law360
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh is mentioned as part of group of lawyers representing Ukraine before the International Court of Justice.
Friday, February 25, 2022
Law Faculty Offer Analysis of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Four Yale Law School faculty members offered initial analysis of the war in Ukraine, presenting perspectives on international law, security, foreign policy, and human rights as the war began to unfold.
Friday, September 10, 2021
60 Words, 20 Years
RadioLab
Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law Oona Hathaway ’97 and Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh were interviewed about the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force.
Friday, January 15, 2021
America’s Post-Trump Reckoning — A Commentary by Harold Hongju Koh
Project Syndicate
Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School.
Thursday, January 7, 2021
Constitutional Scholar: 25th Amendment Could Strip Trump Of Powers Within An Hour
WSHU
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh spoke to WSHU about the 25th Amendment.
Tuesday, December 29, 2020
America’s post-Trump reckoning — A Commentary by Harold Hongju Koh
Japan Times
Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School.
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
Briefs by Faculty and Students Mentioned During SCOTUS Arguments
Two amicus briefs filed with the U.S. Supreme Court by Yale Law School faculty and students were mentioned by Supreme Court justices at arguments on December 1, 2020.
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
Amicus Briefs from Two Yale Law Profs Get Nods
Law.com
Amicus briefs by Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh and Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law Oona Hathaway ’97 were noted, and the Center for Global Legal Challenges mentioned, in a Law.com report on a case before the Supreme Court.
Friday, November 20, 2020
Nestlé & Cargill v. Doe Series: History and Foreign Policy Support Corporate Liability Under ATS
Just Security
Mark Stevens ’21, Alisa White ’22, Hirsa Amin ’21, Key’Toya Burrell ’21, Wynne Muscatine Graham ’22, Michael Loughlin ’21 are students in the Peter Gruber Rule of Law Clinic. Phil Spector is a Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School.
Wednesday, November 11, 2020
International Law Has a Role to Play in Protecting Elections — A Commentary by Harold Hongju Koh et al.
Law.com
Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School. Dapo Akande is Professor of Public International Law at the Blavatnik School of Government, a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford and Co-Director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC). Duncan B. Hollis is Laura H. Carnell Professor of Law at Temple Law School.
Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Biden wants mask mandates nationwide, but he can't actually enforce them. Here's what he could do instead.
USA Today
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh is quoted in USA Today about President-elect Biden’s support of a nationwide mask mandate.
Thursday, October 29, 2020
Biden’s Call for ‘National Mask Mandate’ Gains Traction in Public Health Circles
The New York Times
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh is quoted in the New York Times about the possibility of a national mask mandate.
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Experts Release Statement on International Law Protections Against Foreign Electoral Interference
A team of international law experts has published a statement warning about the insecure electoral process in the United States ahead of the 2020 election, and stating applicable rules of international law that protect electoral processes.
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
YLS Faculty and Students File Amicus Briefs in Nestle USA, Inc. v. Doe
Yale Law School faculty and students worked to submit two amicus briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court in the cases of Nestle USA, Inc. v. Doe and Cargill, Inc. v. Doe.
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
The President’s Legal Authority to Commit Troops Domestically Under the Insurrection Act — A Commentary by Harold Hongju Koh and Michael Loughlin ’21
American Constitution Society
Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School. Michael Loughlin is a member of the Yale Law School Class of 2021.
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Joining COVAX Could Save American Lives — A Commentary by Harold Hongju Koh et al.
Foreign Policy
Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School. Eric A. Friedman is the O'Neill Institute’s Global Health Justice Scholar and the Project Leader for the Platform for a Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH). Lawrence O. Gostin is University Professor at Georgetown University and director of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and is the Founding O'Neill Chair in Global Health Law. Matthew M. Kavanagh, PhD is assistant professor of global health at Georgetown University and director of the Global Health Policy and Politics Initiative at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. John T. Monahan is a senior fellow at the McCourt School of Public Policy and a senior scholar at the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law.
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Bill Barr, Unbound
Washington Post
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh is quoted in the Washington Post about Attorney General Bill Barr.
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
US Push For Iran Sanctions Heightens Trade Uncertainty
Law360
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh is cited in a Law360 article about the effect of sanctions against Iran on trade agreements.
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Anthony P. Lester – A Commentary by Harold Hongju Koh
EJIL: Talk!
Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School.
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
The Second Oxford Statement on International Law Protections of the Healthcare Sector During Covid-19: Safeguarding Vaccine Research
Just Security
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh and others have drafted a statement on the cyber protections needed by vaccine research, and how international law applies to the protection of the development, testing, manufacture, and distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Thursday, July 30, 2020
U.N. Panel Takes Aim at Heavy-Handed Police Tactics at Protests
The New York Times
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh is quoted in a New York Times story about a United Nations human rights panel’s concerns about tactics used by law enforcement against anti-racism protests.
Thursday, July 23, 2020
What is the future of the UN in the age of impunity?
The Guardian
Sterling Professsor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh is quoted in the Guardian on the future of the United Nations.
Saturday, July 11, 2020
In Commuting Stone’s Sentence, Trump Goes Where Nixon Would Not
The New York Times
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh is quoted in the New York Times about President Trump’s commutation of Roger Stone's prison sentence.
Wednesday, July 8, 2020
US withdrawal from WHO is unlawful and threatens global and US health and security — A Commentary by Harold Hongju Koh et al.
The Lancet
Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School.
Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Congress must stop Trump from withdrawing from the WHO — A Commentary by Harold Hongju Koh et al.
The Hill
Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School.
Monday, June 15, 2020
Why U.S. Leadership Matters for the Global Defense, Protection and Promotion of Human Rights — A Commentary by Harold Hongju Koh
The Foreign Service Journal
Harold Hongju Koh is a Sterling Professor of International Law.
Friday, June 5, 2020
How to Keep the United States in the WHO — A Commentary by Harold Hongju Koh and Lawrence O. Gostin
Foreign Affairs
Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School. Lawrence O. Gostin is O’Neill Professor of Global Health Law and Faculty Director of the O’Neill Institute for National Global Health Law at Georgetown University.
Thursday, June 4, 2020
Our Allies Watch Ashen-Faced and Weep for This Country — A Commentary by Harold Hongju Koh
Foreign Policy
Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School.
Saturday, May 30, 2020
Trump’s Empty “Withdrawal” from the World Health Organization — A Commentary by Harold Hongju Koh
Just Security
Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School.
Friday, May 22, 2020
Legal Scholars Sign Statement Advocating for Protections Against Cyber Operations Targeting Health Care Sector
Several members of the Yale Law faculty have signed an Oxford statement Advocating for protections against cyber operations targeting the health care sector.
Friday, May 22, 2020
Firing a Salvo in Culture Wars, Trump Pushes for Churches to Reopen
The New York Times
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh is quoted in the New York Times about President Trump’s demand that governors reopen houses of worship regardless of state restrictions in place regarding large gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Thursday, May 14, 2020
Emoluments Suit Against Trump Advanced by Full 4th Circuit
Courthouse News Service
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh is quoted in a Courthouse News Service article about a court decision that greenlights emoluments cases against President Trump.
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Balance of Power: Yale’s Harold Koh on China Lawsuits (Podcast)
Bloomberg
Professor Harold Hongju Koh was interviewed for a Bloomberg podcast where he discusses attempts to sue the sovereign state of China for starting the Coronavirus pandemic.
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
ROLC Files FOIA Requests Seeking Troop Numbers in Afghanistan, Iraq & Syria
The FOIA requests seek accurate counts of U.S. troops serving in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, which DoD ceased publicly reporting in December 2017.
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Feingold leads American Constitution Society
NJ Today
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh is quoted in a New Jersey Today story about Russ Feingold, who has been named the new president of the American Constitution Society.
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Peter Gruber Rule of Law Clinic Files SCOTUS Brief in Congressional Subpoenas Matter
On March 4, 2020, the Peter Gruber Rule of Law Clinic at Yale Law School filed an amicus brief in support of respondents at the United States Supreme Court in the consolidated cases of Trump v. Mazars USA and Trump v. Deutsche Bank AG, which the Court will hear on March 31, 2020.
Friday, February 28, 2020
Is the Pardon Power Unlimited? — A Commentary by Harold Hongju Koh et al.
Just Security
Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School. Rosa Hayes ’20, Dana Khabbaz ’21, Michael Loughlin ’21, Nicole Ng ’22, Ayoub Ouederni ’21, and Brandon Willmore ’21 are coauthors.
Monday, January 27, 2020
Executive Privilege Cannot Block Bolton’s Testimony — A Commentary by Harold Hongju Koh et al.
Just Security
Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School. Rosa Hayes ’20, Annie Himes ’21, Dana Khabbaz ’21, Michael Loughlin ’21 and Mark Stevens ’21 are coauthors.
Monday, December 30, 2019
Clinic Assists Former Senators in Drafting Impeachment Trial Memorandum
Shortly after the impeachment inquiry began, the Peter Gruber Rule of Law Clinic at Yale Law School commenced work with former U.S. Senators Russ Feingold and Chuck Hagel to prepare a detailed Memorandum to current U.S. Senators in anticipation of a potential Senate impeachment trial.
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
A National Security Impeachment — A Commentary by Harold Hongju Koh
YaleGlobal
Harold Hongju Koh is the Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School.
Sunday, November 3, 2019
National Security Council Lawyers To Testify In Trump Impeachment Inquiry
NPR / All Things Considered
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh spoke to All Things Considered about the potential testimony of two lawyers from the National Security Council in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
Monday, October 21, 2019
House Says Illegal Crossings Are Not National Emergency
Law360
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh is quoted in Law360 about a lawsuit alleging the Trump administration has mischaracterized illegal crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border as a national emergency in order to transfer defense funding to build a wall.
Monday, September 30, 2019
Trump’s Impeachment–What Comes Next?—A Commentary by Harold Hongju Koh
Just Security
Harold Hongju Koh is a Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School.
Monday, September 23, 2019
Professors Koh, Resnik Sign Amicus Brief in Separation of Powers Case
Professors Harold Hongju Koh and Judith Resnik signed an amicus brief last week in federal court arguing that a congressional committee has Article III standing to enforce a subpoena against the executive branch.
Friday, September 20, 2019
Amid Iran tensions, what are U.S. obligations to Saudi Arabia?
PBS NewsHour
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh is quoted in a PBS NewsHour article on America’s obligations to Saudi Arabia in the wake of the attack on its oil facilities.
Friday, August 16, 2019
Trump's Greenland Folly: 'Not As Simple As Buying A Resort'
Law360
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh is quoted about the feasibility of buying an autonomous territory.
Monday, June 17, 2019
A New Trump Battleground: Defining Human Rights
The New York Times
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh is quoted in an opinion piece about human rights.
Thursday, May 2, 2019
Foreign Government Leases at Trump World Tower Stir More Emoluments Concerns
Reuters
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh is quoted in an article about whether foreign governments leasing suites at Trump World Tower is a potential violation of the Constitution’s emoluments clause.
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Yale Team Reaches Semifinals of Jessup Moot Court
A team of students from Yale Law School reached the semifinals of the International Rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in Washington D.C., the world’s largest moot court competition.
Thursday, March 28, 2019
European Court Rules Against 9/11 Victims Seeking $1.6 Billion From Iran
The New York Times
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh is quoted in an article about whether governments should be immune from lawsuits when they are accused of responsibility for terrorist attacks.
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
Trump’s assault on international law working—A Commentary by Harold Hongju Koh
OUPblog
Harold Hongju Koh is the Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School.
Thursday, February 28, 2019
Australian Ambassador Shares View on International Legal Challenges
The Center for Global Legal Challenges hosted a conversation between Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Koh and Ambassador Katrina Cooper of Australia.
Monday, February 25, 2019
National Security Officials Issue Declaration Disputing National Emergency
Working with the Rule of Law Clinic, a bipartisan group of national security officials filed a declaration challenging the President's proclamation of a national emergency at the southern border.
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Trump vs. International Law—A Commentary by Harold Hongju Koh
Yale Global
Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School.
Monday, February 11, 2019
Skullduggery TV: “Zucked”
Yahoo News / Skullduggery TV
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh appeared on Yahoo News’ Skullduggery TV podcast, where he spoke about the Rule of Law Clinic’s guide to the 25th Amendment.
Thursday, December 20, 2018
Harold Koh’s Verdict on Donald Trump vs. International Law
The New Yorker
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh is quoted in the New Yorker about his new book The Trump Administration and International Law.
Monday, November 26, 2018
'These children are barefoot. In diapers. Choking on tear gas.'; Images of migrant children being tear-gassed at the San Ysidro border crossing provoked outrage.
The Washington Post
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh is quoted in the Washington Post about the response to a show of force against migrants seeking asylum at the San Ysidro border crossing.
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Trump Fought International Law...and the Law Won
UN Dispatch
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh was the guest on the UN Dispatch podcast where he discussed how international law is thwarting some of President Trump’s initiatives.
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Jam v. International Finance Corp.: May International Organizations Violate Rights with Impunity?—A Commentary by Harold Hongju Koh and Patrick Pearsall
Just Security
Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School and Patrick W. Pearsall is the chair of the Chair of Jenner & Block’s Public International Law Practice.
Saturday, October 27, 2018
Former Yale Law School Dean: “Trump’s Not Winning”
The Chicago Maroon
The Chicago Maroon reports on a speaking appearance at the University of Chicago by Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh, where he discussed his new book The Trump Administration and International Law.
Friday, September 14, 2018
Professor Koh Publishes New Book On The Trump Administration and International Law
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh has released a new book titled, "The Trump Administration and International Law."
Monday, September 10, 2018
Fossil Fuels on Trial: Where the Major Climate Change Lawsuits Stand Today
Inside Climate News
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh is quoted in a report about various legal challenges to the oil and gas industry over climate change.
Thursday, September 6, 2018
What Is The 25th Amendment And How Could It Undermine Trump?
NPR—All Things Considered
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh is interviewed about Section 4 of the 25th Amendment.
Monday, July 2, 2018
Just Security Podcast: Harold Koh and Cristina Rodríguez on the Travel Ban
Just Security
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh and Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law Cristina Rodríguez '00 were featured on a podcast discussing the travel ban.
Thursday, June 28, 2018
Trump v. Hawaii: Korematsu’s Ghost and National Security Masquerades—A Commentary by Harold Hongju Koh
Just Security
Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School.
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
The Twenty-Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution: A Reader’s Guide—A Commentary by Harold Hongju Koh, Phil Spector ’00, Matthew Blumenthal ’15, Sameer Jaywant ’18, Chris Looney ’19, Richard Medina ’18, and Nathaniel Zelinsky ’18
Just Security
Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law, Phil Spector ’00 is a Visiting Lecturer in Law, Matthew Blumenthal ’15 is a fellow, and Sameer Jaywant ’18, Chris Looney ’19, Richard Medina ’18, and Nathaniel Zelinksy ’18 are students at Yale Law School.
Monday, April 16, 2018
The Real “Red Line” Behind Trump’s April 2018 Syria Strikes—A Commentary by Harold Hongju Koh
Just Security
Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School.
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
Fossil Fuels on Trial: Where the Major Climate Change Lawsuits Stand Today
Inside Climate News
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh is quoted in an article about legal challenges facing the fossil fuel industry around climate change.
Monday, April 2, 2018
Rule of Law Clinic Files Additional Amicus Brief in Travel Ban Case
On March 30, 2018, students from the Rule of Law Clinic filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of a bipartisan group of 52 former senior national security officials.
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, Top Human Rights Official, Won’t Seek a Second Term
The New York Times
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh was quoted in an article about the United Nations high commissioner for human rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein.
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Rule of Law Clinic Files Amicus Brief in SCOTUS Travel Ban Case
The Rule of Law Clinic filed an amicus brief on behalf of 50 senior former national security officials with the Supreme Court relating to the travel ban case.
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Former U.S. Diplomat Criticizes Trump's Handling of North Korea
NBC Connecticut
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh is quoted in a story about President Trump’s handling of North Korea.
Wednesday, August 2, 2017
Trump signs Russia sanctions bill, Moscow calls it 'trade war'
Reuters
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh is quoted in a story about the sanctions against Russia signed into law this week by President Trump.
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Rule of Law Clinic Files Additional Brief Before SCOTUS in Travel Ban Case
On July 18, 2017, Yale Law School’s Rule of Law Clinic filed its sixth brief — and second at the U.S. Supreme Court — regarding the legality of the Administration’s travel ban.
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Federal Court Cites Rule of Law Clinic Brief in Travel Ban Decision
Federal Court cites amicus brief from 42 National Security Officials written by Yale Law School’s Rule of Law Clinic in a ruling against the President’s revised executive order limiting travel from six predominantly Muslim countries.
Friday, June 2, 2017
Trump’s So-Called Withdrawal from Paris: Far From Over—A Commentary by Harold Hongju Koh, et al.
Just Security
Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School. Dena Adler, Joanna Dafoe, Peter Posada, Conor Dwyer Reynolds, and Eugene Rusyn are Yale Law School Class of 2017.
Friday, April 7, 2017
Was Trump’s Strike on Syria Legal?
The New Yorker
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh is quoted in an article about the Syria airstrike.
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Rule of Law Clinic Amicus Brief Asks Court to Strike Down Revised Travel Order
The Rule of Law Clinic at Yale Law School filed an amicus brief on behalf of 40 senior former national security officials on March 15, 2017 in support of the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project’s lawsuit against the President of the United States.
Monday, March 6, 2017
Ukraine takes Russia to UN court over rebel funding, Crimea
ABC News
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh is quoted in an article about an International Court of Justice case between Ukraine and Russia.
Monday, March 6, 2017
For Yale Law Group Fighting Trump’s Travel Ban, Echoes of 1991
The New York Times
The work of WIRAC on the immigration Executive Order is discussed in an article and video. Deputy Dean for Experiential Education and William O. Douglas Clinical Professor of Law Michael Wishnie ’93, Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh, Lisa Daugaard ’92, and My Khanh Ngo ’17 are quoted.
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Forever Prison
Frontline/ Retro Report
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Koh, Deputy Dean for Experiential Education and William O. Douglas Clinical Professor of Law Michael Wishnie ’93, Ray Brescia ’92, and Lisa Daugaard ’95 were interviewed for a feature on their efforts on behalf of Haitian refugees detained at the U.S. Naval base in Cuba after a 1991 coup in Haiti.
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Ex-officials: Trump imperils security
The Washington Post
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh is quoted and the Rule of Law Clinic mentioned in a Washington Post article about the legal brief charging President Trump with endangering national security. Koh and the clinic authored the brief. Jake Sullivan ’03 is mentioned.
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
The Attorney General Behind The Resistance To Trump's Travel Ban
National Public Radio/ All Things Considered
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh is quoted in an article about the lawsuit challenging President Trump’s travel ban.
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Matthews: The President is responsible for what happens
MSNBC
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh and David Rivkin ’80 were guests on Hardball with Chris Matthews where they discussed the immigration crisis.
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Over 1,000 State Department Personnel Officially Dissent to Immigration Order
Voice of America News
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh is quoted in an article about the dissent document signed by foreign service officers and civil service personnel in the U.S. State Department in response to President Trump’s executive order prohibiting entry to refugees and people from seven Muslim majority countries.
Thursday, January 26, 2017
In Trump era, Democrats and Republicans switch sides on states' rights; As the president looks to undo Barack Obama's legacy, administration Republicans are showing little interest in protecting states' rights.
Metro - Philadelphia
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh is quoted in a Reuters article on states’ rights.
Thursday, November 24, 2016
The Next Four Years: A Thanksgiving Strategy—A Commentary by Harold Hongju Koh
Just Security
Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School.
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
National Security Legal Advice in the New Administration—A Commentary by Harold Hongju Koh
Just Security
Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School.
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
70 Years Later: The Nuremberg Legacy and The Crime of Aggression
Harvard Law Today
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh and ambassador Christian Wenaweser were part of an event commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials.
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Renowned Climate Diplomat Joins YLS Professors to Teach Global Climate Change Course
In the wake of the conclusion of the historic Paris Climate Change accords, Yale Law School Professors Harold Hongju Koh and Douglas A. Kysar asked Todd D. Stern to join them in teaching a Fall 2016 course at the Law School on The Past, Present and the Future of Global Climate Change: Law and Policy.
Thursday, August 25, 2016
New Course Will Explore a Post-Brexit World
In the wake of the momentous June 2016 referendum calling for Great Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union, Sterling Professor Harold Hongju Koh will hold a special course this fall examining the broader, evolving political and legal ramifications of “Brexit.”
Monday, June 20, 2016
Another Legal View of the Dissent Channel Cable on Syria—A Commentary by Harold Hongju Koh
Just Security
Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School.
Monday, June 20, 2016
Pain Versus Gain—A Commentary by Harold Hongju Koh
Just Security
Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School.
Friday, March 11, 2016
Professor Koh Joins Scholars in Signing Letter About SCOTUS Nominee
This week, scholars of American history and law wrote a letter to President Barack Obama to share their views on the Senate republicans' refusal to fulfill their responsibilities as laid out in the Constitution. Professor Harold Hongju Koh joined in writing and signing the letter.
The letter argues that denying the President's Supreme Court nominee a hearing is unprecedented in this country's history.
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Can Governors Block Syrian Refugees? Probably Not
NBC News
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh is quoted in an article about whether governors may legally block the relocation of Syrian refugees to their states.
Monday, November 2, 2015
A False Choice on Guantánamo Closure—A Commentary by Harold Hongju Koh
Just Security
Harold Hongju Koh is the Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School.
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Professor Koh Receives Award from CKA
Harold Hongju Koh, Sterling Professor of International Law, received the inaugural Public Servant Award from the Council of Korean Americans (CKA).
Sunday, September 20, 2015
Professor Koh Signs Letter About Syrian Refugees
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh joined more than 20 former senior officials, including some who served in prominent positions in the Obama administration, to sign a letter urging the White House to accept 100,000 Syrian refugees.
The figure is a a tenfold increase over an American commitment made last week, according to the New York Times.
Monday, May 18, 2015
Confirm the Legal Adviser—A Commentary by Harold Hongju Koh
Just Security
Harold Hongju Koh is the Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School.
Sunday, May 10, 2015
113 grads at Quinnipiac Law School hear sage words from Harold Koh
The New Haven Register
The article reported on remarks given by Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Koh at the Quinnipiac Law School commencement ceremony.
Monday, March 9, 2015
Professor Koh Joins Foreign Law Experts to File Amicus Brief in Support of Same-Sex Marriage
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh and a group of foreign and comparative law experts have filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage.
Monday, March 2, 2015
Sunset and Supersede: Striking the Right Balance in the AUMF against ISIL—A Commentary by Harold Hongju Koh
Just Security
Harold Hongju Koh is the Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School.
Friday, December 12, 2014
The Torture Report Is Only the First Step—A Commentary by Harold Hongju Koh
Just Security
Harold Hongju Koh is the Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School.
Friday, November 21, 2014
Professors Koh and Rodríguez Sign Letter Deeming Obama Immigration Action Legal
Professors Koh and Rodríguez pen letter with other top legal scholars declaring President Obama's new immigration policy legal.
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
America’s ‘Unequivocal Yes’ to the Torture Ban—A Commentary by Harold Hongju Koh
Just Security
Harold Hongju Koh is the Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School.
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Memo to the President: Say Yes to the Torture Ban—A Commentary by Harold Hongju Koh
Politico Magazine
Harold Hongju Koh is the Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School.
Monday, September 29, 2014
Obama’s ISIL Legal Rollout: Bungled, Clearly. But Illegal? Really?—A Commentary by Harold Hongju Koh
Just Security
Harold Hongju Koh is the Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School.
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh's Testimony on the Authorization For Use Of Military Force After Iraq And Afghanistan
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on Wednesday, May 21, 2014, at the hearing on "Authorization For Use Of Military Force After Iraq And Afghanistan."
Thursday, April 24, 2014
National Security Lawyering Class Meets With D.C. Policymakers
Students in Professors Harold Hongju Koh and Oona Hathaway’s National Security Lawyering class recently took a four-day trip to Washington, D.C., where they met with officials, policymakers, and lawyers in various executive and legislative bodies to present their findings from a semester’s worth of study into deep questions on pressing national security issues.
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Professor Harold Koh Honored with Frederick K. Cox Humanitarian Award
Professor Harold Koh received the 2014 Frederick K. Cox International Law Center Humanitarian Award for Advancing Global Justice on March 18 at Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Migrant Interdiction Conference Will Explore the Legacy of Sale v. Haitian Centers Council
Harold Hongju Koh, Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, and Alexander Aleinikoff ’77, Deputy High Commissioner, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, will deliver the conference’s keynote addresses.
Thursday, May 9, 2013
How to End the Forever War?—A Speech by Professor Harold Hongju Koh
Professor Koh delivered a speech at Oxford University on a broad range of issues involving foreign policy and national security. View the full text of his remarks here.
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Harold Hongju Koh Portrait Unveiled During Ceremony at Yale Law School
A portrait of Professor Harold Hongju Koh was unveiled on April 11, 2013.
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Yale Law School Professors, Alumni Submit Amicus Briefs in Hollingsworth v. Perry
Yale Law School faculty discuss filing legal briefs in Hollingsworth v. Perry case, which will go before the Supreme Court on March 26, 2013.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Professor Harold Koh Receives 2013 William Green Award
Professor Harold Hongju Koh receives 2013 William Green Award for Professional Excellence from the University of Richmond School of Law.
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Harold Hongju Koh Named Sterling Professor of International Law
Former Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh, who recently returned to the school after serving as Legal Adviser to the U.S. Department of State, has been named a Sterling Professor of International Law.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Harold Hongju Koh Returns April 11 to Lecture on the Obama Administration and International Law
Former Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh will deliver a Dean’s Lecture on April 11 about the Obama administration and international law.
Friday, January 22, 2010
Yale Journal of International Law Conference February 26 on Government Lawyering and International Law; Harold Koh To Give Keynote
On February 26, the Yale Journal of International Law will host a conference on “Government Lawyering and International Law” in commemoration of its thirty-fifth anniversary.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Chairs Conferred on Harold Hongju Koh, Oona Hathaway ’97, and Jean Koh Peters
Chairs have been conferred by the Yale Corporation on Harold Hongju Koh, Oona Hathaway ’97, and Jean Koh Peters.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Harold Hongju Koh Confirmed as Legal Adviser of U.S. State Department
Harold Hongju Koh, Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Message from Harold Hongju Koh to YLS Community
Harold Hongju Koh sent a message to the Yale Law School community following his confirmation as Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State.
Monday, May 25, 2009
Commencement Farewell for 229 Degree Candidates, and Dean Koh
229 members of the Yale Law School Class of 2009 were honored at Memorial Day commencement ceremonies on May 25.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Dean Koh Honored by Connecticut Law Tribune
Dean Koh has been honored by the Connecticut Law Tribune for service to the profession.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Dean Koh Nominated as Legal Adviser to the U.S. Department of State
Harold Hongju Koh
Monday, March 23, 2009
A Message from Dean Harold Hongju Koh
I wanted you to know that today, President Obama is announcing his intent to nominate me as The Legal Adviser of the United States Department of State.
Monday, March 23, 2009
A Message from Yale University President Richard C. Levin
President Levin has appointed Kate Stith acting dean of YLS.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Dean Koh Testifies Before Senate Constitution Subcommittee About Rule of Law
Dean Harold Hongju Koh
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
“Decide What You Stand For,” Dean Koh Tells New Students
Dean Harold Hongju Koh welcomed new students to Yale Law School during a convocation address on Wednesday, August 27.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Panel Discussion March 4 on Steroids, HGH, and the Future of Baseball
YLS Dean Harold Hongju Koh will moderate a panel discussion on March 4 titled “The Mitchell Report and Beyond: Steroids, HGH, and the Future of Baseball.”
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Statement of Dean Harold Hongju Koh Regarding Burt v. Gates Decision, September 19, 2007
Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh has released a statement on the Burt v. Gates decision.
Monday, May 28, 2007
Yale Law School Grads Urged To Become Heroes of Their Own Lives, Help Others Do Same
Yale Law School’s 2007 Commencement ceremony took place Monday, May 28, in the Law School Courtyard.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Dean Koh Testifies Before House Foreign Affairs Committee About Human Rights Practices
Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh.
Monday, March 19, 2007
YLS Dean Harold Hongju Koh Joining “Yale Week in Mexico”
Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh will travel to Mexico with Yale University colleagues for “Yale Week in Mexico” March 20 to March 23.
Thursday, March 8, 2007
Dean Harold Hongju Koh Statement To YLS Community on Malicious Website Postings
Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh has issued a statement to the Yale Law School community on the subject of malicious website postings.
Monday, February 5, 2007
YLS Faculty and Alumni Honored For Legal Writing By The Green Bag Journal
The Green Bag journal has selected works by a number of members of the Yale Law School community as "exemplars of good legal writing" for 2006.
Friday, July 7, 2006
Dean Harold Hongju Koh to Receive Immigration and Civil Rights Award
Dean Koh’s advocacy work will be recognized at an awards ceremony sponsored by the Immigrant Legal Resource Center on July 21.
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Remarks by Dean Harold Hongju Koh at William Sloane Coffin Jr.'s Memorial Service
A Remembrance of William Sloane Coffin, Jr.
Remarks delivered by Harold Hongju Koh
Dean, Yale Law School
Battell Chapel Memorial Service, May 27, 2006
Monday, November 28, 2005
Discussion of "Defining the U.S.-UN Relationship for the 21st Century," Nov. 28
A panel discussion titled "Building a Safer World: Defining the U.S.-UN Relationship for the 21st Century" will consider what role the United States should take in reforming and working with the United Nations. The talk will be held on Monday, November 28, 2005, at 6:30 p.m. in Room 127. It is free and open to the public.
The speakers at the panel will be:
Thursday, September 1, 2005
Dean Koh's Welcome Address to New Students
Dean’s Welcoming Speech
Harold Hongju Koh
Yale Law School
September 1, 2005
Welcome to Yale Law School!
I am Harold Koh, and I am the person who says “Welcome to Yale Law School!”
Let me start with the immortal words of Admiral James Stockdale, who ran for Vice President with H. Ross Perot in 1988. He asked at the Vice Presidential debate, “Who am I and what am I doing here? “In this digital era, a video is worth a million words. So let me show you this introductory video, which was prepared for our Law Revue show only last spring.
Wednesday, February 2, 2005
A Message from Dean Harold Hongju Koh Regarding Military Recruitment
As you know, the Defense Department has lately interpreted the Solomon Amendment to require denial of federal funds to institutions of higher education that withhold assistance from military recruiters who will not pledge to refrain from discrimination in recruiting. Last year, groups of Yale Law School faculty and students filed suit in the federal district court in Bridgeport challenging the legality of the Defense Department's interpretation of the Solomon Amendment. On December 9, 2004, Judge Janet C. Hall (D.Conn.) heard argument on motions for summary judgment in these cases.
Monday, January 10, 2005
Statement of Dean Harold Hongju Koh before the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding the nomination of Alberto Gonzales as U.S. Attorney General
Dean Koh's prepared statement is available as a PDF document through the link below.
Related Documents:
Statement of Dean Harold Hongju Koh.
BOOKS and MONOGRAPHS
The National Security Constitution: Sharing Power After the Iran-Contra Affair, Yale University Press, 1990 (revised and expanded edition Yale, forthcoming 2021)
American Schools of International Law, 410 Recueil des Cours (Martinus Nijhoff 2020) (Monograph of Inaugural Keynote Lectures at first Winter Session at The Hague Academy of International Law)
The Trump Administration and International Law (2019) (Oxford University Press)
Transnational Business Problems (6th ed. 2019) (Foundation Press), with Detlev F. Vagts & William S. Dodge & Hannah Buxbaum
A Reader’s Guide to the Twenty-Fifth Amendment (2018), with students from Yale Rule of Law Clinic.
Foundations of International Law and Politics (with Oona A. Hathaway Oxford 2009)
Transnational Litigation in United States Courts (2008) (Foundation Press)
Justice Harry A. Blackmun Supreme Court Oral History Project, Federal Judicial Center/Supreme Court Historical Society (Editor 1994-1996) (public release 2004)
The International Human Rights of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities: Different but Equal (Oxford University Press 2002) (with Stanley Herr and Lawrence Gostin, eds)
Deliberative Democracy and Human Rights (with Ronald C. Slye) (Yale University Press 1999) (translated into Spanish)
International Business Transactions in United States Courts, 261 Recueil des Cours (Martinus Nijhoff 1998) (Monograph of Lectures in Private International Law at The Hague Academy of International Law)
Transnational Legal Problems (with Henry Steiner & Detlev Vagts) (Foundation Press 4th ed. 1994) and Documentary Supplement (1994)
The National Security Constitution: Sharing Power After the Iran-Contra Affair (Yale University Press 1990) (Winner, Richard E. Neustadt Award, awarded by the Presidency Research Section, American Political Science Association, to the best book published in 1990 that contributed most to research and scholarship on the American Presidency)
ARTICLES and BOOK CHAPTERS
"Transnational Legal Process and the 'New' New Haven School of International Law", International Legal Theory: Foundations and Frontiers, Jeffrey Dunoff & Mark Pollack eds., forthcoming 2021
Trump Change: Unilateralism and the “Disruption Myth” in International Trade, Yale J. Int’l L. Online, https://cpb-usw2.wpmucdn.com/campuspress.yale.edu/dist/8/1581/files/2019/02/Koh_YJIL-Symposium_Trump-Change_02.05.19-2amriyq.pdf
Trump vs International Law, Who’s Winning, 2018 Aus.J.Int’l L.1 (2018)
Presidential Power to Terminate International Agreements, 2018 YALE L.J.F. 128 (2018)
"Trump vs. International Law: He’s Not Winning", Opinio Juris (October 2, 2018) http://opiniojuris.org/2018/10/02/trump-vs-international-law-hes-not-winning/
"Trump v. International Law: Who’s Winning?", Australian J. Int’l L., Vol. 24 (2018), p. 1.
Harold Hongju Koh, "Missile Strikes Against Syria: Against the Never-Never Rule", Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law (2017), https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3125112
“The Trump Administration and International Law,” 56 Washburn L.J. 413 (2017)
"Humanitarian Intervention: Time for Better Law", Symposium on Unauthorized Military Interventions for the Public Good, AJIL Unbound (2017), https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320169019_Humanitarian_Intervention_Time_for_Better_Law.
“State of Play and the Road Ahead: Humanizing Security,” Chapter in Dapo Akande, et al., Human Rights & 21st Century Challenges (OUP 2017).
Triptych’s End: A Better Approach to 21st Century International Lawmaking, 126 Yale L.J. Forum (2016- 17), http://www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/triptychs-end
The Emerging Law of 21st Century War, 66 Emory L.J. 487 (2017).
“The Enduring Legacies of the Haitian Refugee Litigation,” 61 N.Y.L.S. L. Rev. 155 (2016/17)
“Global Tobacco Control as a Health and Human Rights Imperative,” 57 Harv. Int’l L.J. 433 (2016)
The War Powers and Humanitarian Intervention, 53 Houston L. Rev. 971 (2016)
“The Crime of Aggression: The United States Perspective” (with Todd F. Buchwald), in Claus Kress & Stefan Barriga, eds., The Crime of Aggression: A Commentary (Cambridge University Press 2016)
“‘Effective’ Policy in Syria: Ambassador Robert Ford’s View,” Just Security Blog, June 21, 2016, https://www.justsecurity.org/31590/effective-policy-syria-ambassador-robert-fords-view/
“Pain Versus Gain,” Just Security Blog, June 20, 2016, https://www.justsecurity.org/31544/pain-gain/
“Another Legal View of the Dissent Channel Cable on Syria,” Just Security Blog, June 20, 2016, https://www.justsecurity.org/31571/legal-view-dissent-channel-cable-syria/
“Michael Ratner: The Leading Progressive Lawyer of a Generation,” May 12, 2016, https://www.justsecurity.org/31010/michael-ratner/
“The Legal Adviser’s Duty to Explain,” 41 Yale J. Int’l Law 189 (2016)
“The Legal Adviser’s Duty to Explain,” The Role of Legal Advisers in International Law (Andraz Zidar & Jean-Pierre Gauci eds. 2016)
Rapporteur’s Report, Global Migration Crisis: Its Challenges to the United States, Europe and Global Order, Richard C. Holbrooke Forum at the Brookings Institution, http://www.americanacademy.de/home/program/past/global-migration-crisis-0.
“The People,” Interview with HanYang Law Review, 2015 Han Yang L. Rev. 97 (2015)
Reflections on the Law and Politics of the Kosovo Case, Chapter 18 in The Law and Politics of the Kosovo Advisory Opinion (M. Wood & M. Milanovic eds. 2015)
Sunset and Supersede: Striking the Right Balance in the AUMF against ISIL, http://justsecurity.org/20570/sunset-supersede-striking-balance-authorization-military-force-aumf-isil/, March 2, 2015
The Torture Report is Only the First Step, http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/12/12/the-torture-report-is-only- the-first-step/, December 12, 2014
America’s “Unequivocal Yes” to the Torture Ban, http://justsecurity.org/17551/americas-unequivocal-yes- torture-ban/, November 18, 2014
Harold Hongju Koh (with T. F. Buchwald), "The Crime of Aggression: The United States Perspective", Am. J. Int’l L, Vol. 109 (2015), p. 257.
ASIL Plenary on IL in Obama Administration for Proceeding, 2014 Proceedings of the American Society of International Law
International Criminal Justice 5.0, 38 Yale J. Int’l Law 525 (2013)
The Case for International Law (with Michael Doyle), 92 Foreign Affairs 162 (2013)
In Memoriam, Detlev F. Vagts (1929-2013) (with William Dodge and Hannah Buxbaum), http://opiniojuris.org/2013/08/23/in-memoriam-detlev-f-vagts-1929-2013/
Restoring Justice: The Legacy of Edward H. Levi, Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Winter 2014, at 26; available at https://www.amacad.org/multimedia/pdfs/publications/bulletin/winter2014/bulletin_Winter2014.pdf
YLS Sale Symposium, Sale’s Legacies, http://opiniojuris.org/2014/03/17/yls-sale-symposium-sales-legacies/
21st Century International Law Making, 101 Georgetown L.J. 725 (2013)
International Law in Cyberspace: Remarks of Harold Koh, 54 Harv. Int’l L.J. Online 1 (2012), available at http://www.harvardilj.org/2012/12/online_54_koh
The State Department Legal Adviser’s Office: Eight Decades in Peace and War, 100 Georgetown L.J. 1747 (2012)
Harold Hongju Koh, Legal Adviser, U.S. Dep’t of State, The Obama Administration and International Law, Keynote Speech at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law (Mar. 25, 2010), available at https://2009-2017.state.gov/s/l/releases/remarks/139119.htm
America and the World, 2020, in THE CONSTITUTION IN 2020 (Siegel & Balkin eds. 2009)
Commentary in Michael W. Doyle, Striking First: Preemption and Prevention in International Conflict 99 (2008)
Human Rights and National Security: Chapter in Mark Green, et al., eds, Change for America: Progressive Blueprint for the Next Administration (2008)
Filártiga v. Pena-Irala: Judicial Internalization of the Customary International Law Norm Against Torture in International Law Stories (Noyes, Dickinson & Janis, eds.; Law Stories Series, Foundation Press 2007)
The Bright Lights of Freedom, NPR: THIS I BELIEVE, Jay Allison & Dan Gediman, eds., (New York: Henry Holt & Company, 2006) 141-143; paperback edition (2007)
”Can the President Be Torturer in Chief?,” Ind. L. Rev. 81:1145 (winner 2007 Green Bag Award for “exemplary writing in a long article” Green Bag Almanac and Reader (2007)
A World Drowning in Guns, INTERNATIONAL LAW AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: BRIDGING THEORY AND PRACTICE, Thomas J. Biersteker, Peter J. Spiro, Chandra Lekha Sriram, and Veronica Raffo, eds., (London: Routledge Press, 2006) 59
“The New Global Slave Trade,” Displacement, Asylum, Migration 232 (Oxford Amnesty Lectures) (Kate Tunstall ed. 2006)
Unveiling Justice Blackmun, 72 Brooklyn L. Rev. 9 (2006)
Setting the World Right, 115 Yale L.J. 2350 (2006)
Why Transnational Law Matters, 24 Penn State Int’l L.Rev. 745 (2006)
Syria and the Law of Humanitarian Intervention, Parts I, II, III, http://justsecurity.org/2013/09/26/koh- syria/
Ending the Forever War: A Progress Report, October 28, 2013, http://justsecurity.org/2013/10/28/ending-war-progress-report
Strike on Syria for Chemical Weapons–Not Illegal, YaleGlobal, http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/strike-syria-chemical-weapons-%25E2%2580%2593-not-illegal
POTUS’ view on who counts as Al Qaeda, http://justsecurity.org/2014/01/20/potus-view-counts/, January 20, 2014
Nelson Mandela, 1918-2013; http://justsecurity.org/2013/12/06/nelson-mandela-1918-2013/, December 6, 2013.
Keynote Address: A Community of Reason and Rights, 77 Fordham L. Rev. 583 (2008)
A Day in Court Denied The Washington Post, Monday, March 31, 2008 Page A19
No Torture. No Exceptions. The Washington Monthly, January/February/March 2008
Tom Eagleton: True Senator, 52 St. Louis U. L Journal 25 (2008)
Mirjan Damaska: A Bridge Between Two Cultures, in Maximo Langer, et al., Festschrift for Mirjan Damaska (2008)
Sale v. Haitian Centers Council: Guantanamo and Refoulement (with Michael J. Wishnie), in Ford, Hurwitz & Satterthwaite, Human Rights Advocacy Stories (2000)
Repairing America’s Human Rights Reputation, 40 Cornell Int’l L.J. 635 (2007)
Is there a “New” New Haven School of International Law? 32 Yale Law Journal 559 (2007)
“Repair America’s Human Rights Reputation”—op-ed appeared in the Summer 2007 issue of the Yale Law Report as part of a collection of op-eds written by Yale Law School faculty members
Tom Eagleton: True Senator, 52 SLU L. Rev. 1 (2007)
Preface to Eugene Fidell, Beth Hillman & Dwight Sullivan, Military Justice: Cases and Materials (2007)
Preface to William J. Aceves, The Anatomy of Torture: A Documentary History of Filártiga v. Peña-Irala (2007)
The Future of Lou Henkin’s Human Rights, Movement, 38 Col. H.Rts Rev. 487 (2007)
In Memoriam: Robert F. Drinan, S.J. (1920-2007) 95 Georgetown Law Journal 1709 (2007)
The Activist: Robert S. Drinan S.J., Stirring the Human Rights Revolution, BC Law Magazine 7 (Summer 2007) (tribute to Father Drinan)
Louis B. Sohn: Present at the Creation, Harvard International Law Journal, 2006
The Healing Wisdom of Jay Katz, 6 Yale J. Health Policy, Law and Ethics 397 (Spring 2006)
Harry Andrew Blackmun, in Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law (2007)
“A Law Unto Itself?,” Yale L.J. (The Pocket Part), March 2006
Tribute to President Francis Daly Fergusson, upon her retirement from Vassar College, Vassar Quarterly, “Energy in the Executive”
“Mark Janis and the American Tradition of International Law,” Conn. J. Int’l L.
“Captured by Guantanamo”
Choosing Heroes Carefully (Tribute to John Hart Ely), 57 Stan. L. Rev. 723 (2005)
“The Bright Lights of Freedom,” This I Believe, NPR
“The Value of Process,” in Why Obey International Law?, 10 Int’ Legal Theory 1 (2004)
“Standing Together,” 15 Law & Sexuality, 15:1
“Internalization Through Socialization,” Duke L.J. 54: 975 (2005)
“Commentary: A World Drowning in Guns,” in International Law and International Relations 59-76 (Thomas Biersteker, Veronica Raffo, Peter Spiro and Chandra Sriram, eds Routledge 2006)
Preface to Jaya Ramji & Beth van Schaack, Bringing the Khmer Rouge to Justice: Prosecuting Mass Violence Before the Cambodian Courts
The Ninth Annual John W. Hager Lecture, The 2004 Term: The Supreme Court Meets International Law, Tulsa Journal of Comparative & International Law 12: 1 (2004)
"The Wolfgang Friedmann Lecture: A World Without Torture," Columbia Journal of Transnational Law (2005)
International Law as Part of Our Law, 98 Am. J. Int’l Law 43 (2004)
Separating Myth and Reality about Corporate Responsibility Litigation, 7 J. Intl Econ. L. 263 (2004)
Snatched in Sudan, Captive in Khartoum, Times Higher Education Supplement, Feb. 20, 2004
Advice to the Next High Commissioner, Columbia Human Rights L. Rev. 2003
Transnational Legal Process After September 11, 22 Berkeley J. Int’l L. (2004)
Rights to Remember, Economist, November 2003 at 24
American Diplomacy and the Death Penalty (with Thomas Pickering) 80 Foreign Service Journal 19 (October 2003)
"On America's Double Standard: The Good and Bad Faces of American Exceptionalism,” American Prospect (October 2004)
"America's Jekyll and Hyde Exceptionalism," chapter in Michael Ignatieff, American Exceptionalism and Human Rights (Princeton University Press 2005)
On American Exceptionalism, 55 Stan. L. Rev. (2003)
A World Drowning in Guns, 71 Fordham L. Rev. (2003)
Why the United States should ratify the Convention for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), 34 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 258 (2002)
Tribute to John Sexton, 60 Annual Survey of American Law (2003) (tribute to John Sexton)
A Tribute to Tom the Frank, 35 NYU Journal Int’l L. & Pol. (2003) (tribute to Thomas Franck)
The Law Under Stress After September 11, 31 Int’l Legal Info. 317 (2003)
International Human Rights of Persons with Mental Disabilities, 63Md. L. Rev. 1 (2004)
Wrong on Rights, Yaleglobal Online (2004)
In Memoriam: Dean Eugene V. Rostow, Yale Law Report 16 (Summer 2003)
Paying “Decent Respect” to the World Opinion on the Death Penalty, 35 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1085 (2002)
Paying Decent Respect to International Tribunal Rulings, 2002 Proceedings of the American Society of International Law
Against Military Tribunals, Dissent Magazine 58 (Fall 2002)
One Year Later, America Deserves Mixed Reviews, Yale Daily News (September 13, 2002)
A Better Way to Deal with Iraq, Hartford Courant, October 20, 2002
“Preserving Our Values: The Challenge At Home and Abroad," chapter 6 in The Age of Terror: America and the World After September 11 at 143 (Strobe Talbott & Nayan Chanda, eds. Basic Books 2002)
"The Spirit of the Laws," 43 Harv. Int'l L.J. 23 (2002)
"The 2001 Richard Childress Memorial Lecture: A United States Human Rights Policy for the 21st Century," 46 St. Louis U. L. J. 293 (2002) (special issue with nine commentators)
"The Case Against Military Commissions," 96 Am. J. Int'l L. 337 (April 2002)
"Transnational Legal Process Illuminated,"in Transnational Legal Processes: Globalisation and Power Disparities 327 (Michael Likosky ed. Butterworths Press 2001)
"The Globalization of Freedom,"26 Yale J. Int'l L. 305 (2001)
"A Passion for Service," 45 N.Y.L.S. L. Rev. 17 (2001) (tribute to Harry Wellington)
"An Uncommon Lawyer," 42 Harv. Int'l L.J. 7 (2001) (tribute to Abram Chayes)
"We Have The Right Courts for Bin Laden," N.Y. Times, Nov. 23, 2001 at A39
Six Civil Rights Experts Weigh in on Sept. 11, Time.com, 12-1-01
"The U.S. Can't Allow Justice to Be Another War Casualty," The Los Angeles Times; Dec. 17, 2001 at B11
"The Best Defense: Article I," The Hartford Courant (September 16, 2001)
"America the Pariah," Project Syndicate (August 2001) (op ed piece published in 20 foreign newspapers)
"Estados Unidos y Europa, divididos por la pena de muerte," LA NACION (Argentina) July 23, 2001
"A Dismal Record on Executing the Retarded," New York Times (June 14, 2001)
"A Wake Up Call on Human Rights" Washington Post (May 8, 2001)
"A Breakthrough in North Korea," Washington Post (November 2, 2000)
"Complementarity Between International Organisations on Human Rights/The Rise of Transnational Networks as the "Third Globalization," 21 Human Rights Journal 307 (2000)
"The Third Globalization: Transnational Human Rights Networks," Introduction to the 1999 Human Rights Report, U.S. Dept. of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1999 at xv (vol.1) (2000)
"The Right to Democracy," Introduction to the 1998 Human Rights Report, U.S. Dept. of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1998 at xv (vol.1) (1999)
"1998 Harris Lecture: How Is International Human Rights Law Enforced?" 74 Indiana L. J. 1397 (1999)
"1998 Frankel Lecture: Bringing International Law Home," 35 Houston L. Rev. 623 (1998)
"Is International Law Really State Law?", 111 Harv. L. Rev. 1824 (1998)
"Why Do Nations Obey International Law?", 106 Yale L.J. 2599 (1997)
"Ten Lessons About Appellate Oral Argument,"71 Connecticut Bar Journal 218 (1997)
"Congressional Protection of International Human Rights,"170 Fed. R. D. 285 (1997)
"Book Review, Chayes & Chayes, The New Sovereignty," 91 American Journal of International Law 389 (1997)
"War and Responsibility in the Dole/Gingrich Congress," 50 Miami L. Rev. 1 (1996)
"Transnational Legal Process," 75 Neb. L. Rev. 181 (1996)
"The Constitution,"in Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations (Oxford University Press 1996)
"A World Transformed," 20 Yale Journal of International Law vii (1995)
"America's Offshore Refugee Camps," 29 Richmond L. Rev. 139 (Allen Chair 1994)
"Refugees, The Courts, and the New World Order," 1994 Utah L. Rev. 999
"The 'Haiti Paradigm' in United States Human Rights Policy," 103 Yale L.J. 2391 (1994)
"Democracy and Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy?: Lessons from the Haitian Crisis," 48 SMU L. Rev. 189 (1994)
"The Haitian Refugee Litigation: A Case Study in Transnational Public Law Litigation," 18 Md. J. Int'l L & Trade 1 (1994)
"Reflections on Refoulement and Haitian Centers Council," 35 Harv. Int'l L.J. 1 (1994)
"Who Are the Archetypal 'Good' Aliens?" 88 American Society of International Law Proc. 450 (1994)
"Justice Blackmun and the 'World Out There'," 104 Yale L.J. 23 (1994)
Broadening Access to International Law Resources Through New Technology," 89 American Society of International Law Proc. -- (1995)
"Aliens in Our 'Beloved Community,'" Smithsonian Working Paper (1995)
"One Step Forward, One Step Back," Miami Herald, May 4, 1995 A27
Alliance for Justice, "First Monday," October 3, 1994 (video panel)
"Terms for Assessment," Roundtable on Justice Blackmun, ABA Journal 52 (July 1994)
"Justice Done," New York Times, Apr. 8, 1994, at A27
"The Justice Who Grew," 1994 J. S.Ct. Hist. 5 (1994)
"DIANA: A Human Rights Data Base," 16 Human Rights Quarterly 753 (1994) (with N. Finke, T. Fitchett, and R. Slye)
"Bitter Fruit of the Asian Immigration Cases," 6 Constitution 68 (1994) (reproduced in Cong. Record, Jan. 6, 1995 at S569)
"Standing Up for Principle: A Personal Journey," 5 Korean and Korean-American Studies Bulletin 4 (1994)
"A Tribute to Justice Harry A. Blackmun," 108 Harv. L. Rev. 20 (1994)
Remarks at Proceedings Held on the Occasion of the Induction of Jose A. Cabranes As U.S. Circuit Judge, 2d Cir. (Sept. 26, 1994)
"The New New International Economic Order," 87 American Society of International Law Proc. 259 (1994)
"Aliens and the Duty of Nonrefoulement: Haitian Centers Council, Inc. v. McNary," 6 Harvard Human Rights Journal 1 (1993) (with the Lowenstein Human Rights Clinic)
"The Role of the Courts in War Powers Cases," in Constitutional Government and Military Intervention After the Cold War (M. Halperin & G. Stern eds.) (Westview Press 1993)
"The President Versus the Senate in Treaty Interpretation: What's all the Fuss About?" 15 Yale Journal of International Law 331 (1990)
"Reply to Book Reviews of The National Security Constitution: Sharing Power After the Iran Contra Affair, 15 Yale Journal of International Law 382 (1990)
"A History of the Fast Track Approval Mechanism," Chap. 1, A. Holmer & J. Bello, eds., The Legislative Fast Track: Its Illustrative Use for the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement (Prentice Hall 1990)
"The Iran-Contra Affair," The Guide to American Law Yearbook 1990 (West 1990)
"The Human Face of the Haitian Interdiction Program," 33 Virginia Journal of International Law 483 (1993)
"Two Cheers for Feminist Procedure," 61 University of Cincinnati Law Review 1201 (1993)
"Protecting the Office of Legal Counsel from Itself," 15 Cardozo Law Review 1601 (1993)
"The War Powers Resolution," in Cold War Patriot and Statesman: Richard M. Nixon 321 (L. Friedman and W. Levantrosser, eds.) (Greenwood Press, 1993)
"Against Specialization in The Teaching of International Law," Contemporary International Law Issues: Sharing Pan-European and American Perspectives 198 (1992)
"The Fast Track and United States Trade Policy," 18 Brooklyn J. Int'l L. 143 (1992)
"Dollar Diplomacy/Dollar Defense: The Fabric of Economics and National Security Law," 26 International Lawyer 715 (1992) (with John Choon Yoo)
"Los regímenes de formulacion de politica comercial del Congreso y del Ejecutivo estadunidenses y su relacion con un posible acuerdo de libre comercio entre Canada, México y Estados Unidos," México/Estado Unidos 1990 at 193 (G. Vega ed. 1992)
Remarks at Presentation of the Portrait of the Honorable Malcolm R. Wilkey, 992 F.2d lxxi (1993) (U.S. Ct. App. D.C. Dec 17, 1992)
Selections, Encyclopedia of the American Presidency (1993)
Closed Door Policy for Refugees," Legal Times 36 (July 26, 1993)
"We the People --and Congress-- Have Yet to Be Heard" (with Bruce Ackerman), L.A. Times (May 5, 1993)
"Reflections on Kissinger," Constitution (Winter 1993)
"The War Powers Debate," Ending the Cold War at Home 41 (1992)
"The Constitution and the Bill of Rights," 85 American Society of International Law Proc. 199 (1991)
"Foreword," Asian Americans and the Supreme Court: A Documentary History ix (H.C. Kim ed.) (Greenwood Press 1992)
"Begging Bush's Pardon," 29 Hous. L. Rev. 889 (1992)
Conversation/By Steve Kemper," Northeast Magazine, July 26, 1992
"Good News, Bad News," Constitution 13 (Spring-Summer 1991)
"Bush Honors the Law When It Pleases Him," Newsday (January 20, 1991)
"A Justice for Passion," 1990 Annual Survey of American Law (1991)
"Transnational Public Law Litigation," 100 Yale L.J. 2347 (1991)
"The Constitutional Roles of Congress, the Executive and the Courts in the Conduct of U.S. Foreign Policy," (with K. Stith-Cabranes and S.Y. Koh) (Woodrow Wilson Center monograph) (Fall 1991)
"The Coase Theorem and the War Power: A Response," 1991 Duke L.J. 122(1991)
"Presidential War and Congressional Consent: The Law Professors' Memorandum in Dellums v. Bush," 27 Stanford J. Int'l L. 247 (1991)
"Summary Remarks, Conference on The Dynamics of U.S.-Korea Trade Relations: Economic, Political, Legal and Cultural," (East Rock Press, 1991)
"A Level Playing Field for Global Problems: Section 337 of the Tariff Act -- A Case Study," Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Judicial Conference of the U.S.Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 133 F.R.D. 257 (1990)
"The Liberal Constitutional Internationalism of Justice Douglas," He Shall Not Pass This Way Again: The Legacy of Justice William O. Douglas 297 (S. Wasby ed., U. of Pittsburgh Press 1990)
"The Responsibility of the Importer State," Chapter 8, in G. Handl & R. Lutz, eds., Transferring Hazardous Technologies and Substances: The International Legal Challenge 171 (Graham & Trotman/Martinus Nijhoff 1989)
"Don't Close the Books on Iran-Contra Mess," New Haven Register (May 13, 1990)
"Graduation Address to Yale Law School," (May 1989), excerpted in S. Lee & M. Fox, Learning Legal Skills 207 (1991) and Yale Law Report 14 (Fall 1989)
"What Congress Must Do To Reassert National Security Power," First Principles 5 (September 1988)
"Why the President (Almost) Always Wins in Foreign Affairs: Lessons of the Iran-Contra Affair," 97 Yale Law Journal 1255 (1988) (republished as Chapter 6 in The Constitution and the Conduct of American Foreign Policy (David Gray Adler & Larry N. George eds. 1996)
"The Palestine Liberation Organization Mission Controversy," 82 American Society of International Law Proc. 534 (1988)
"Four Dichotomies in American Trade Policy," in Symposium, American Trade Policy: Actors, Issues, and Options, Special Issue No. 1, Yale L. & Pol'y Rev. 4 (1988)
"Introduction," Focus: Foreign Affairs Under the Constitution, 13 Yale J. Int'l L. 1 (1988)
"Rebalancing the Medical Triad: Justice Blackmun's Contributions to Law and Medicine," 13 Am. J. L. & Med. 201 (1988)
"The Treaty Power," 43 U. Miami L. Rev. 106 (1988)
"A Legal Perspective," Chapter 5, in Perspectives On A U.S.-Canadian Free Trade Agreement (R. Stern, P. Trezise & J. Whalley, eds.) (Brookings Institution 1987) (based on 12 Yale J. Int'l L. 193 (1987)
"The Legal Markets of International Trade: A Perspective on the Proposed United States-Canada Free Trade Agreement," 12 Yale Journal of International Law 193 (1987)
"Civil Remedies for Uncivil Wrongs: Combatting Terrorism Through Transnational Public Law Litigation," 22 Texas Int'l.L.J. 169 (1987)
"Why the President (Almost) Always Wins in Foreign Affairs," 81 American Society of International Law Proc. 248 (1987)
Looking Beyond Achievement: After `the Model Minority,' Then What?"," 3 Korean And Korean-American Studies Bulletin 15 (Fall/Winter 1987)
"Thoughts on Being a Korean-American Legal Academic," 1 Korean-American Journal 5 (May 1986)
"Asians in American Law", Yale Law Report 28 (Fall 1986)
Book Review, H. Steiner & D. Vagts, Transnational Legal Problems and D.Vagts, Transnational Business Problems, 20 Int'l.Law 1417 (1986)
"Judge Wilkey's Contributions to International Law and the Foreign Relations Law of the United States," 1985 B.Y.U. Law Rev. 647 (1985)
"Malcolm R. Wilkey: Jurist and Scholar," 19 Int'l Law. 1289 (1985)
"Congressional Controls on Presidential Trade Policymaking after INS v. Chadha," 18 N.Y.U.J.Int'l.L.& Pol. 1191 (1986)
"Equality with a Human Face: Justice Blackmun and the Equal Protection of Aliens," 8 Hamline Law Rev. 51 (1985)
Note, "The Constitutionality of Municipal Advocacy in Statewide Referendum Campaigns," 93 Harv.L.Rev. 535 (1980)
Case Comment, "Discovery from Media Defendants in Public Figure Defamation Actions: Herbert v. Lando," 93 Harv.L.Rev. 149 (1979)
Testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution regarding Restoring the Rule of Law (September 16, 2008)
SELECTED CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY
Testimony before the House Foreign Relations Committee regarding “The 2006 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices and the Promotion of Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy” (March 29, 2007)
Testimony before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary regarding “Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: Establishing a Constitutional Process” (July 11, 2006)
Testimony before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary regarding “Wartime Executive Power and the National Security Agency’s Surveillance Authority” (February 28, 2006)
Testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding “The Nomination of the Honorable Alberto R. Gonzales as Attorney General of the United States” (January 7, 2005)
Testimony before the House Committee on International Relations regarding “A survey and analysis of supporting human rights and democracy: The U.S. record 2002–2003” (July 9, 2003)
“United States Ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women,” Hearing Before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee (June 13, 2002)
“Human Rights in Turkey,” Hearing before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, Washington, DC (March 9, 2000).
“Country Reports on Human Rights Conditions,” Testimony before the Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights, U.S. House of Representatives Washington, DC, (March 8, 2000).
“The Global Problem of Trafficking in Persons: Breaking the Vicious Cycle,” Hearing Before the House Committee on International Relations (Sept. 14, 1999)
“Human Rights at the End of the 20th Century,” Hearing before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe; Washington, DC, (March 17, 1999).
“Country Reports on Human Rights Conditions,” Testimony “Country Reports on Human Rights Conditions,” Testimony before the Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights, U.S. House of Representatives (March 3, 1999)
“Human Rights in China,” Testimony International Operations and Human Rights, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington DC (January 20, 1999)
“U.S. Policy Toward Haiti”: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and Peace Corps Affairs of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, 103d Cong. 2d Sess. (Mar. 8, 1994)
“The Nonrefoulement Reaffirmation Act of 1992,” House Foreign Affairs Committee (June 11, 1992)
“U.S. Human Rights Policy Toward Haiti,” Hearing before Legislation and National Security Subocmmittee; House Government Operations Committee, 102nd Cong., 2nd Sess. 97 (April 9, 1992)
“The Constitutional Roles of Congress and the President in Waging and Delcaring War,” Senate Judiciary Committee (January 8, 1991)
“Executive-Congressional Relations in a Multipolar World,” Hearings Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 101st Cong., 2d Sess. 92 (Nov. 26, 1990)
Testimony on H.R. 3665, the Official Accountability Act, before the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, (June 15, 1988)